The Curvature of the Earth

The earth falls away, meaning the bullet would have to fall further than the one just dropped. So my problem is how much does the earth drop away and how much longer does the bullet take to hit the ground because of it? I'm not going to properly answer Jay's problem here because you'd look at what sort of bullet, how far it travels,. You could run all the numbers on this. What I thought was interesting is the same situation still works. If you had a hole that went all the way through the earth and out the other side, straight through the middle, and ignore any practical concerns, you've got a hole all the waythrough the earth. That's some good